John Morgan is spending $4 Million out his own pocket to pass a ballot measure that would make medical marijuana legal in Florida.

Well-known, and outspoken, medical marijuana proponent John Morgan unleashed a profanity-laced speech at a post-debate gathering last week.

Morgan, an Orlando-based attorney, participated in a debate with Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd prior to joining supporters at a Lakeland bar. The video is the latest installment in what has become a long-running feud between Morgan and Grady over Amendment 2 ­– which would allow the use of marijuana for some medical conditions.

Easily recognized in the Jacksonville area thanks to his law firm’s omnipresent television and radio commercials, Morgan is one of the most outspoken proponents of the measure. And his rant in front of a raucous crowd further establishes him as the face of the push to legalize medical marijuana.

"I didn't smoke a piece of grass all the way here," Morgan said in the cell-phone captured speech. "But I'll tell you this, once I get outside the borders of Polk County, I might smoke a lot of grass.”

The uncensored video, which may offend some readers and be unsuitable for others, can be viewed here.

Again I must disagree with you. Morgan riled up the crowd into a screaming frenzy of #¥*^ the Sheriff. I don't care how much he drank, a respectable man would have been appalled at those statements and requested the crowd cease. Morgan got the crowd going with his rants about the Sheriff. He has no respect for the law of man.

And yes, since it is apparent he doesn't have respect for authority( the Sheriff) his other political leanings come into play.

So Olgator, I will continue to question those politicians he throws his money at (Obama & Crist) and what his motives are for doing so.

Jagwater- this story has nothing to do with issue before voters. Opponents of this measure are once again supporting something the public doesn't want. So they make the issue a possibly intoxicated attorney's comments and hope people just look ay that and not look at the issue. Amazinging people fall for it but they do.

We are not voting for this attorney. If you decide issues based on how a supporter of an issue acts, you should try looking at the actual issue.

Btw, I'm betting St.Sheriff has said or done some things among friends he'd prefer people not see. If you see him in unflattering video do you then support medical marijuana? If not then this story is worthless

Some say Morgan's support for putting medical marijuana on the ballot is simply a ruse to encourage younger, more liberal voters to come out and vote. God forbid we have high (no pun intended) voter turnout - the Repubs know they would lose every time. (Hence their attempts to suppress voter turnout among those who are more likely to vote for Democrats under the guise of preventing almost nonexistent voter fraud.) Others, including Morgan himself, say it's because he's seen how marijuana helped relieve the pain and nausea his father and brother suffered due to cancer. Perhaps it's a bit of both. I say, anything that helps break the self-sustaining monopoly/choke hold the Republican Party has here in Florida is a good thing. I'm reminded of the comment the now-notorious Republican lobbyist, Mac "The Knife" Stipanovich, said as he emerged from the capitol building side by side with Gov. Jeb Bush at the end of Bush's first legislative session as governor in 1999 - "I got everything," he said to Bush. "I don't know what the poor people got, but the rich people are happy and I'm ready to go home." (Note that Stipanovich is the same guy who was later tasked with chaperoning then Florida Attorney General Katherine Harris during the 2000 Bush-Gore recount controversy.) Enough is enough. Take back Florida!!!